Vaporizing a character model

I am no visual effect artist (sadly) but I was wondering if any of you had any ideas on getting started with a "simple" particle effect system that basically will take a character model and vaporizes him/her.

Can it be done with the standard particle system or can you use Amplify shader to accomplish this?

I know this is a very broad question, however, I've been searching the web to find answers but after an hour or so I haven't gotten any wiser.

I have also been looking at the asset store, however, I couldn't find an asset that did this.

The above image is from the game Jedi academy and shows somewhat what i want to achieve